Xia Chujian shrugged and said, "Aunt, you're too powerful. You probably usually can't even see ordinary people like us, crawling on the ground just to survive."
"But we have the right to live too!"
"Of course, Qi Sha must have had her own strengths and charm. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made those Humanoids' ancestors swear to follow her unto death."
"But since those people followed her, why didn't they correct her bad habit of being a love brain?"
"For ordinary people, that kind of flaw is nothing more than a harmless little weakness."
"But for an emperor, it is absolutely a fatal defect!"
Huo Yushen and She Zhuyin exchanged glances, then both looked away.
She Zhuyin said slowly, "Chujian, I agree one hundred percent with everything you just said."
"But those words really don't sound like something a girl barely in her twenties would say."
"Have you never thought about what it feels like to truly love someone?"
Xia Chujian said unconcernedly, "I have! But not with that kind of love-above-all feeling Qi Sha had."
She Zhuyin said, "Then what do you think a love brain who puts love above all else is?"
"Qi Sha wasn't really a love brain, was she?"
"She had several Imperial Husbands, but that was a limitation of her era, not a flaw."
"Before the Beichen Empire became a Constitutional Monarchy, emperors had their three palaces and six courtyards, with many women."
"By the same logic, a woman emperor could have many Imperial Husbands too."
"You aren't objecting to her having many Imperial Husbands, are you?"
Xia Chujian said, "Of course not. As far as an Empress is concerned, the more Imperial Husbands, the better."
"But taking someone like Tantai Lin, who was obviously of questionable character, into the Imperial Palace—wasn't that because she liked